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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO<br/>
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CHAPTER 8
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Jesus feeds the four thousand—He counsels: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees—He heals a blind man in Bethsaida—Peter testifies: Thou art the Christ.
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In</span> those days the multitude being very great, and having nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples <i>unto him,</i> and saith unto them,
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I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
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And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/3a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR some.">divers</a> of them came from far.
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And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these <i>men</i> with bread here in the wilderness?
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And he asked them, How many loaves have ye?  And they said, Seven.
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And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before <i>them;</i> and they did set <i>them</i> before the people.
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And they had a few small fishes: and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before <i>them.</i>
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So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken <i>meat</i> that was left seven baskets.
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And they that had eaten were about four thousand: and he sent them away.
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&#182; And straightway he entered into a ship with his disciples, and came into the parts of Dalmanutha.
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And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 46: 9; D&C 63: 7 (7-11).">sign</a> from heaven, tempting him.
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And he sighed deeply in his spirit, and saith, Why doth this generation seek after a <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="Matt. 16: 4 (1-12).">sign</a>?  verily I say unto you, There shall no sign be given unto this generation.
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And he left them, and entering into the ship again departed to the other side.
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&#182; Now <i>the disciples</i> had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf.
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And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and <i>of</i> the leaven of Herod.
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And they reasoned among themselves, saying, <i>It is</i> because we have no bread.
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And when Jesus knew <i>it,</i> he saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread?  perceive ye not yet, neither understand?  <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/17a" mark="a" type="P" title="GR do you still have hardened hearts?.">have</a> ye your heart yet <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/17b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Hardheartedness.">hardened</a>?
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Having eyes, see ye not?  and having ears, hear ye not?  and do ye not remember?
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When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?  They say unto him, Twelve.
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And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?  And they said, Seven.
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And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?
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&#182; And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man unto him, and besought him to touch him.
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And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Administrations to the Sick; TG Hands, Laying on of.">hands</a> upon him, he asked him if he saw <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/23b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR anything.">ought</a>.
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And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.
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After that he put <i>his</i> hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored, and saw <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/25a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR everything.">every</a> man clearly.
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And he sent him away to his house, saying, Neither go into the town, nor tell <i>it</i> to any in the town.
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&#182; And Jesus went out, and his disciples, into the towns of Caesarea Philippi: and by the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Whom do men say that I am?
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And they answered, John the Baptist: but some <i>say,</i> Elias; and others, One of the prophets.
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And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am?  And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/29a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Messiah.">Christ</a>.
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And he charged them that they should <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/30a" mark="a" type="A" title="Luke 9: 21.">tell</a> no man of him.
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And he began to <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/31a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Teaching Mode of.">teach</a> them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and <i>of</i> the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
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And he spake that saying openly.  And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.
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But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/33a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 12: 5 (5-6, 34).">Satan</a>: for <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/33b" mark="b" type="P" title="GR you do not consider, cherish.">thou</a> savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
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&#182; And when he had called the people <i>unto him</i> with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/34a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Self-mastery.">deny</a> himself, and take up his cross, and <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/34b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Exemplar.">follow</a> me.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/35a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 8: 37-38 (Appendix).">For</a> whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/35b" mark="b" type="A" title="Luke 9: 24.">lose</a> his <sup>c</sup><a href="mark/8/35c" mark="c" type="C" title="D&C 103: 28 (27-28); TG Martyrdom.">life</a> for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it.
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For what shall it profit a man, if he shall <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 45: 5.">gain</a> the whole world, and lose his own soul?
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Or what shall a man give in exchange for his <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/37a" mark="a" type="H" title="JST Mark 8: 40 Therefore deny yourselves of these, and be not ashamed of me.">soul</a>?
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Whosoever therefore shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="mark/8/38a" mark="a" type="C" title="1 Ne. 8: 28 (24-28); TG Shame.">ashamed</a> of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the <sup>b</sup><a href="mark/8/38b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Jesus Christ, Son of Man.">Son</a> of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy <sup>c</sup><a href="mark/8/38c" mark="c" type="H" title="JST Mark 8: 42-43 (Appendix).">angels</a>.
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